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Rackspace Outage Takes Down Big Portions of the Web

It appears that a networking issue at RackSpace took many websites offline this afternoon (including Mashable for a period of time), starting at around 4:30 p.m. EST (with confirmation from Rackspace about 15 minutes later).

37Signals (and its suite of apps), Threadless and the recently launched Vevo were among the major websites knocked offline, although Twitter search indicates that potentially thousands that host on either Rackspace’s cloud or dedicated servers were impacted.

While a slow Friday afternoon before the holidays for those of us in the media business might not be a huge deal, an outage during the busiest online shopping time of the year is a big blow to ecommerce companies that host with Rackspace. We’ll wait and see what type of resolution — if any — the company offers to its customers.

Notice any other big websites down this afternoon, or experience problems of your own? Let us know in the comments.

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